stackyFACTSYour Intro to Psych professor's favorite anecdote about human apathy is mostly fabricated journalism.
Your Intro to Psych professor's favorite anecdote about human apathy is mostly fabricated journalism. Academia gleefully parroted the story of 38 silent witnesses ignoring Kitty Genovese's murder to teach the 'bystander effect.' While diffusion of responsibility is real, the original New York Times article vastly exaggerated the sociopathic neighbors to sell papers, meaning generations of students learned sociology from a sensationalized myth.
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